Apple has repeatedly said over the years that it will never make a touchscreen Mac, but that’s never deterred concept designers, and Swiss site HandyAbovergleich is the latest to join the fun.
The site has put together some admittedly beautiful images of a Mac Apple will never make, envisaging not just a touchscreen, but a touch keyboard and full-width trackpad too …
Steve Jobs first explained why Apple had rejected the idea of a touchscreen Mac.
Jony Ive said last year that Apple had rejected a touchscreen Mac ‘many, many years ago.’ Phil Schiller later expanded on this, saying that Apple had actually tried it.
But the launch of the Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro, and reports of Apple’s interest in fully-dynamic keyboards, have kept the idea alive.
HandyAbovergleich’s MacBook Touch concept integrates both a touchscreen display and keyboard.
It also includes an edge-to-edge trackpad, support for the Apple Pencil – and, just for good measure, a 17-inch screen.
The touch-sensitive keyboard – which would of course be a truly horrible typing experience – can double as a secondary display.
The machine is never going to happen, but it’s at least a beautifully-realized fantasy. Personally, I love the almost 1:1 mapping of the huge MacBook Pro trackpad, and think I would actually like to see it a little wider – though not full width. How about you? Share your reactions in the comments.
